rijncur

Hi HN,

I've been developing a few server deployment playbooks with Ansible lately, but the playbooks use the root user by default. I've always felt that root logins are "dangerous" and should be avoided so I have a "bootstrap" playbook to create a different privileged (but non-root) user and disable root login. All subsequent playbooks can then use the non-privileged user.

I was wondering what best practices are in this regard, with root login and automated deployment/configuration management tools. It'll be interesting to hear your thoughts! Thanks.

I'm spending a fair amount of time drafting out reports and papers lately and Markdown is the simplest, cleanest way to write with as few distractions as possible. Any recommendations for Markdown editors on OS X?

I'm personally using Mou at the moment, but I'd prefer to use something open-source.